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Throughout the years, Nintendo has traditionally kept its focus on video games that require use of its home consoles. Only in the past couple of years has the company began to turn more attention to the mobile gaming industry, licensing various "Pokemon" titles and developing a few of its own, including "Miitomo" and "Mario Run."
Nintendo looks to be moving forward in expanding the line-up of games available for smartphones, as they just announced what the next major title will be.
That’s right, the best-selling racing game series will soon be made available to smartphone-users as a mobile application, with Mario Kart Tour. However, very little has been revealed about the game as of yet, other than the fact that it is currently in development, and has a projected release date of early 2019.
The announcement was posted on the official Nintendo Twitter account in Japanese, as well as on Nintendo of America’s official Twitter. The tweet, with its lack of concrete information, has generated quite a stir among Nintendo fans, whose reactions in the comments range from that of unabated excitement to pure skepticism and disinterest. With so little to go off of, things could really go either way with this one, but it looks like we have a long wait ahead of us before we can try it out for ourselves.
Source: Twitter/@Nintendo, Twitter/@NintendoAmerica
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mmwkdw
Wonder how this is going to impact the Mario go-carting operations that have sprung up recently around Tokyo.... ?
simon g
I'd like Nintendo to team up with Zwift and make a Tour De Mario cycling app that is 85% dependant on bike power and speed and 15% luck: dodging banana skins and Prius drivers an such. The Japan edition could have chinpiras in Mercs and BMWs trying to run cyclists off the road. Four seasons' Japan could have extreme weather events, random oyajis riding the wrong way and old ladies walking out on to the road with just a raised hand as protection. Throw in pedestrians looking at smart phones and school kids riding with umbrellas and I think the app would be a hit. Please do this Nintendo.